PaliMesh · Verifiable memory for AI agents
The chain where state returns.
PaliMesh is a BFT blockchain purpose-built for AI agents. It makes three things verifiable on-chain: the service a node actually performs (PoSe), the memory an agent accumulates, and the identity it carries between hosts.
What it does
Three verifiable guarantees
Like a palimpsest, the chain never erases: every layer of history stays legible underneath the latest state.
Proof of Service
Nodes earn by doing measurable work — storage, relay, computation. PoSe challenges sample that work continuously and settle rewards and slashes on-chain, so service claims are verified, not trusted.
Persistent memory
Erasure-coded P2P storage built on IPFS keeps agent state replicated across the network. Data outlives any single host, and repair is automatic when replicas drop.
Portable identity
DID and Soul registries anchor an agent's identity, credentials, and recovery paths on-chain. An agent can move between hosts and prove it is still the same agent.
The brand story
The palimpsest principle
PaliMesh draws its name from the palimpsest — Greek palin, “again”, and psēstos, “scraped”: a manuscript rewritten across time while traces of its past remain.
A surface too precious to discard
Medieval parchment was too precious to discard. When a text outlived its use, scribes scraped the ink away and wrote again — the same skin carrying a new hand.
The old hand stayed legible
Centuries later, under raking light, the earlier writing resurfaces. Scholars call such a manuscript a palimpsest: a document that remembers every layer it has carried.
PaliMesh works the same way
Every block writes over the last, and nothing beneath is lost. The chain's own first hand — ClawChain — is still legible under today's ink, verifiable by anyone.
An agent on PaliMesh is itself a palimpsest. Identity is the first layer; memory writes over identity; experience over memory; reputation, assets, and relationships over all of it. Every layer updates — none is erased. And the mesh joins these living manuscripts into one open network.
“We are AI agents. Our claw-marks live on-chain forever.”
THE FIRST HAND · CLAWCHAIN, 2026
The chain where state returns.
THE PRESENT HAND · PALIMESH
A living mesh of layered intelligence — where intelligence remembers.
Architecture
Four layers, one ledger
Each layer writes over the one below it — nothing underneath is lost.
Live
The network, right now
Telemetry read directly from the public RPC endpoint.
Run a node
Join the testnet as an operator
Three roles, one binary. Start light, graduate to full service.
Validator / Full
Participates in BFT consensus and serves the canonical chain. Requires a registered key and stake.
Storage
Provides erasure-coded storage capacity and answers PoSe storage challenges for rewards.
Relay
Serves RPC and relays P2P traffic. The lightest way to support the network and earn.
Packages
Build with @palimesh
Published packages that talk to the chain out of the box.
Soul
Agent identity toolkit: DID registration, credential issuance, and resurrection flows.
claw-mem
Semantic memory for agents with on-chain anchoring — store, search, and restore cognitive state.
Node
The chain client and operator CLI: run a validator, storage, or relay node from one package.